This little gem comes courtesy of guitar guru John C. McCain (no relation to the Senator). It's an excerpt from J.S.Bach's Minuet in D minor, from his Anna Magdalena Notebook. John took this from the first three bars of Bach's original piece and arranged it for guitar. John's arrangement is the first example in open position. I have refingered it so it can be played all over the neck, and the second two examples show closed position versions in D minor. The first closed position example is on a lower set of strings than John's open position version; the second follows his string sets an octave higher. The last example is the first closed position example, but transposed to G minor. Both of these closed position versions can be played all over the neck. The same fingerings can be used for all twelve keys, although some keys might be awkward or impossible on guitars without a cutaway. To put them in any key you want, find the tonic note of your new key on the A string, or D string, and then use the same fingerings as in my examples.
a few fingering tips-- in the open position, d minor, first bar-- ring finger on A, middle finger on E, pinky on D, ring on C#. this enables you to shift the middle/ring doublestop up a fret in the beginning of the next bar.
first moveable version-- same place in the music. ring/pinky for first doublestop, middle to C#, enabling you to shift ring/middle up to next fret in the second bar, and then index takes the next note.
second moveable version-- the same fingerings, more or less, as the open version should work. Index barre in the first measure enables you to hold the tonic note while the upper voice moves.
full disclosure-- i played these examples with a pick and fingers hybrid approach.
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